$3M of compact-impact funds to buy student laptops

Feb. 1, 2013

Written by

Dance Aoki
Pacific Daily News

Gov. Eddie Calvo is diverting $3 million from compact-impact funding to purchase laptops for public school students.

The funding will need to be approved by the Department of Interior before it will be distributed to the Department of Education, according to the press release. It's unclear, however, when that approval is expected.

In recent years, Guam has consistently received about $16 million in compact-impact funding, which is federal money given to Guam to help the government cope with migrants from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the ...